As well as being an incredible songwriter and performer, Nina Simone was a tireless activist within the civil rights movement, which often influenced her music.

An African American woman's voice, a child of Southwest Georgia, a voice raised in song, born in the struggle against racism in America during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s ...

On the evening of Oct. 10, Doudna Fine Arts Center hosted Oh Freedom! Songs of the Civil Rights Movement, a concert dedicated ...

"Soundtrack for a Revolution" is a window into the musical and lyrical soul of civil rights movement, as well as the men and women that used song to give them the strength and solidarity to stand ...

A civil rights champion and musical pariah, Nina Simone wrote some of the greatest songs of an entire generation, tackling subjects like racism and entrapment.

Aretha Franklin grew up in 1950s Detroit, surrounded from childhood by the now-famous faces of the civil rights movement. Her songs would become their anthems. Her Baptist minister father was the ...

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Smithsonian Folkways Recordings playlists, Sounds of the Civil Rights Movement and Peace Songs of the 1960s, reveal the vibrancy of the genre.

The song is actually about the Little Rock Nine during the Civil Rights Movement, and the story goes that McCartney leaned out the window and played it for the first time one night to fans camped ...

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Bill Pannell, who died on Friday (Oct. 11) at 95 years old, touched the lives of countless legions of others — including me ...

The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was an important period of political action. It was a movement led by people from all over the country, all fighting racism in local ways ...